JShelter

JShelter controls the APIs provided by the browser. The goal is to improve the privacy and security of the user running the extension.

Total ratings for JShelter

4.46 (Rating count: 39)

User reviews summary

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Pros

Provides extra protection when JavaScript must be enabled
Easier to use than NoScript
Eliminates tracking between sites

Cons

Breaks too many websites, including those using CAPTCHA
High CPU and RAM usage
Some sites hang or break without obvious indication

Most mentioned

Breaks too many websites
High CPU and RAM usage
Eliminates tracking between sites

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Recent reviews for JShelter

Recent rating average: 4.10

All time rating average: 4.46

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5% (2)

Date	Author	Comment
2024-05-10	BaraShiro	Had to disable as it allocates way to much memory, sometimes > 20Gb. Hopefully this will be fixed in a future update.
2024-04-22	Adrian F.	I had to disable this after the upgrade to Firefox 125.0.1 because it caused very high CPU (100%) and RAM (20G+) usage for multiple hours, without end. I used about:memory to discover that this was the culprit. After I disabled JShelter, the CPU usage and RAM dropped.
2024-02-19	ti-ap	A great tool that everyone should be using, even if it's not perfect. I recommend it to anyone that will listen. On rare occasions some sites will break because they're using a really aggressive captcha or spam detection platform. Lowering the settings on JShelter and refreshing fixes this. I also disagree that notifications should be shown by default, if at all. Every site is using fingerprinting of some sort nowadays, so you just get a notification every time you go to a site and the notifications become noise.
2024-01-17	wн\|τεbʁeλÐe®i5βaЯ1εy
2023-10-20	JCD
2023-09-22	Oliver Salzburg
2023-09-13	geeknik
2023-03-31	Andreas
2023-03-09	Viking Helmet	As much as I appreciate the concept behind this and would like to give it a higher rating, it breaks too many websites and virtually anything that uses CAPTCHA. I'll continue to keep it around, but some sites will flat-out ignore your request and others will fail to verify your humanity while it's enabled.
2023-03-03	LM

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